Dar El-Tarbiah American School Quarter 3

Physics 2017-2018
Worksheet 4
Waves (Boundary Behavior)
Name:----------------------------------- Class:---------------
1- Express your understanding of reflection of waves at the end of a medium by drawing the size and orientation of the
reflected pulse for the two cases below - reflection off a free end and a fixed end.

A pulse in a more dense medium is traveling towards the boundary with a less dense medium.

2- The reflected pulse in medium 1 ________ (will, will not) be inverted because _______.

3- The speed of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the speed of the
incident pulse.

4- The speed of the reflected pulse will be ______________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the speed of the
incident pulse.

5- The wavelength of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the wavelength
of the incident pulse.

6- The frequency of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the frequency of
the incident pulse.
A pulse in a less dense medium is traveling towards the boundary with a more dense medium.

7- The reflected pulse in medium 1 ________ (will, will not) be inverted because _____________.

8- The speed of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the speed of the
incident pulse.

9- The speed of the reflected pulse will be ______________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the speed of the
incident pulse.

10- The wavelength of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the wavelength
of the incident pulse.
11- The frequency of the transmitted pulse will be ___________ (greater than, less than, the same as) the frequency of
the incident pulse.

12- When a wave passes across the boundary from one medium to another medium,
The speed is _______________ (greatest, smallest) in the least dense media.
Wavelength is _______________ (greatest, smallest) in the least dense media.
The reflected pulse becomes inverted only when the incident wave is in the __________ (more, less) dense medium and
heading toward the ___________ (more, less) dense medium.
13- Incident pulse is in the more dense medium and traveling toward the less dense medium

14- Incident pulse is in the less dense medium and traveling toward the more dense medium.